Word: colquitt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recently spruced-up town in central Georgia's lush, goober-growing country, Plains had been without a physician since 1951, when Dr. Colquitt Logan virtually retired at 71 after having two operations for cataracts. Like 50-odd Georgia towns (and 1,450 now on record in the U.S.) listed as wanting a doctor, Plains might have gone doctorless for a long time...
Arts & Crafts. In Moultrie, Ga., accused of smuggling a hacksaw blade to prisoners in Colquitt County jail, Mrs. Ruth Lower, 18, protested: "The boys in there told me they wanted the blade to saw soup bones. I didn't know they were going...
...encomium, umbrage, charlatan and eident eliminated all but three. In Round 29, Jim Bernhard, 12, of Houston, Texas, who had plowed successfully through such words as effluviography, went down on haruspex (he ended it specs). Only plump, wavy-haired Diana Reynard, 12, of East Cleveland, Ohio, and pale, lanky Colquitt Dean, 14, of College Park, Ga., were left...
While the youngsters sipped Cokes, the judges hastily collected 37 more heavy-caliber surprises. Diana and Colquitt went through them all (including meticulosity, syzygy, prorogue, frondesce, cincture, heliotaxis, ectogenous, meerschaum) without a slip. With everybody feeling that honor had been more than satisfied, the judges thereupon declared a draw, the first in the Bee's history. To Winners Diana and Colquitt went twin sets of prizes: $500 checks, trips to New York, gold National Bee emblems set with rubies...